DeTurck's Estate

Citations

• 70 Pa. Super. 314
• 1918 Pa. Super. LEXIS 238

Syllabus

<p>Executors and administrators — Distribution out of administrator's own fund — Reimbursement—Family settlement — Statute of limitations.</p> <p>Where an administrator in making distribution under a family settlement, has paid to the respective heirs their full share of the estate, part of the payment being made with his own funds, leaving unpaid a balance in a bank which had stood in the name of the decedent, but had entered into the computation of the amount to which each heir was entitled, such administrator is entitled, .as against the heirs, to reimburse himself out of the balance in the bank. He is not put in the position of a creditor of the estate, and the statute of limitation does not run against him.</p>